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Curriculum Vitae CURRICULUM VITAE Helen Hennessy Vendler A. Kingsley Porter University Professor Harvard University 12 Quincy Street - Barker Center Room 205 Cambridge, MA 02138 Telephone: (617) 496-6028 Fax: (617) 496-8737 http://scholar.harvard.edu/vendler Home Address: 58 Trowbridge Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Telephone: (617) 547-9197 Education A.B.s.c.l.: Emmanuel College, 1954 (Chemistry) University of Louvain, 1954-55 (French, Italian; Fulbright Fellow) Boston University, 1955-56 (English Literature; Special Student) Ph.D. Harvard University, 1960 (English and American Literature) Honorary Degrees Litt.D. Smith College, 1980 Ph.D. University of Oslo, 1981 Litt.D. Kenyon College, 1982 D.L. University of Hartford, 1985 D.H.L. Union College, l986 D.L. Columbia University, l987 D.L. Marlboro College, 1989 D.H.L. Fitchburg State University, 1990 D.H.L. Washington University, 1991 D.L. Bates College, 1992 D.L. Dartmouth College, 1992 D.H.L. University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 1992 D.L. University of Massachusetts-Boston, 1992 D.L. University of Toronto, 1992 D.L. Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 1993 D.L. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, 1997 Litt.D. National University of Ireland, 1998 Litt.D. Wabash College, 1998 D.L. University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, 2000 -1- D.L. Yale University, 2000 D.L. Tufts University, 2001 D.L. University of Aberdeen, 2001 D.L. Amherst College, 2002 D.L. Colby College, 2003 D.L. Bard College, 2005 D.L. Willamette University, 2008 D.L. Queen’s University Belfast, 2010 D.H.L. Brandeis University, 2015 Teaching Full-Time Harvard University, Visiting Professor, 1981-85; Professor, 1985-1990; A. Kingsley Porter University Professor, 1990- Boston University, Associate Professor, 1966-69; Professor, 1969-1985 Smith College, Assistant Professor, 1964-66 Swarthmore and Haverford Colleges, Lecturer, 1963-64 Cornell University, Instructor, 1960-63 Harvard University, Member of the Board of Tutors, 1957-60 Occasional University of Massachusetts-Amherst National Defense Education Act (NDEA) Institute, Summer 1966 Harvard University Summer School, 1970, 1981 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminar for College Teachers, Director, 1973-74, 1976; Fellowship-in-Residence, 1977-78 Yeats Summer School, Sligo, Ireland, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1979-80, 1982-83, 1986, 1998-2001, 2003-05, 2007 Washington University-St. Louis, Fanny Hurst Visiting Professor, Fall 1975 Wordsworth Summer Conference, Grasmere, England, 1979 NEH Summer Seminar for High School Teachers, 1983-84 NEH Summer Seminar for Undergraduate Fellows, 1985 NEH Summer Institute for High School Teachers, 2007-08 Fellowships, Grants, Awards, Elected Memberships, Etc. Emmanuel College Tuition Scholarship, 1950-54 University of Louvain Fulbright Fellowship, 1954-55 Radcliffe College Tuition Fellowships, 1956-58 Harvard University Teaching Fellowships, 1957-60 Wellesley College Alice Freeman Palmer Fellowship, 1958-59 General Electric Humanities Fellowship, 1959 [resigned in favor of American Association of University Women (AAUW)] AAUW National Fellowship, 1959-60 Phi Beta Kappa, 1960 Cornell University Research Grant-in-Aid, 1961 -2- American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Grant-in-Aid, 1964 The Explicator Prize, 1969; Honorable Mention, 1977 Modern Language Association (MLA) James Russell Lowell Prize, 1969 ACLS Senior Fellowship, 1971 Guggenheim Fellowship, 1971 NEH Senior Fellowship, 1971 (declined), l980-8l, l986-87, 2005-06 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Member, 1972 PEN American Center Member Boston University Metcalf Teaching Award, 1975 National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, 1975 Harvard University Society of Fellows, Acting Senior Fellow, 1976-77; Senior Fellow, 1980-93; Acting Senior Fellow, 1996-97 Radcliffe College Graduate Society Medal, 1978 Churchill College Overseas Fellow, Cambridge, England, 1980 Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Teacher of the Year Finalist, 198l National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Criticism, 1981 Amherst College Robert Frost Library Fellow, 1983 National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Criticism Finalist, 1983 Harvard University Walter Channing Cabot Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, l985-86 Fulbright Committee Distinguished Lecturer Program, l986 ACLS Travel Grant, l987 Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters Member, 1987 Rockefeller International Center Residency, Bellagio, Italy, 1987 Irish Scholarship Board Distinguished Lecturer Program, 1988 Hawthornden Castle Residency, 1989 Truman Capote Prize, University of Iowa Creative Writing American Philosophical Society (APS) Member, 1992- American Academy of Arts and Letters Member, 1993- Magdalene College Parnell Fellow, Cambridge, England, 1994 Magdalene Colllege Honorary Fellow, Cambridge, England, 1996 Yaddo Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger Residency, 1997 Indiana University Institute for Advanced Study, Fellow, 1998 National Book Critics’ Circle Award Finalist for The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, 1998 University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities Visiting Fellow, 1998 W. B. Yeats Society of New York, M. L. Rosenthal Award, 1998, 2000 Yaddo Residency, 1998, 2000, 2005, 2010 Bucknell University Award for Merit, 1999 Who’s Who in America, 1980- Council of the APS Henry Allen Moe Prize, 2000 Council of the APS Thomas Jefferson Medal, 2000 University of Aberdeen James Murray Brown Lecturer, 2000 Centro Studi Ligure, Bogliasco Fellowship Residency, 2002 NEH Jefferson Lecturer, 2004 Berlin Prize Fellowship, American Academy of Berlin, 2006 National Humanities Center (NHC) Meymandi Residency, 2006 American Academy of Arts and Letters Vice-President for Literature, 2007-10 -3- National Gallery of Art Mellon Lecturer, “Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill.” Washington DC, 2007 Exemplary Performance Report, NEH Summer Seminar for Teachers, 2008 Siemens Stiftung Fellow, Munich, Spring 2009 Nominated for Star Family Prize in Advising, 2013 AAAS, Award for Humanistic Studies, 2013 Professional Activities Whiting Foundation Awards Nominator, various years Smith College Chair of the Prize Committee and a Judge of the American Academy of Poets Prize, 1965 Yale University Poetry Contest Judge (with Marie Borroff and John Palmer), 1966 English Institute Supervisory Board Member, 1970-73; Trustee, 1977-85 MLA Committee on Copyright, 1970-71; Nominating Committee, l984-86 Harvard Graduate Society for Advanced Study and Research, Council Member, 1970-75 MLA: Executive Council Member, 1971-75; Second Vice President, 1978; First Vice President, 1979; President, 1980 New York Times Book Review Consultant Poetry Editor, 1971-74 ACLS International Symposium on Humanities and Technological Change in Ireland, Participant, 1972 National Book Award in Poetry Judge (one of five), 1972 Canadian Association for Irish Studies, McGill University, Chair of Session, 1973 Mademoiselle Poetry Contest Judge, 1973 National Screening Committee for the United Kingdom, Fulbright Commission, Member, 1973, 1975, 1978 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry Judge (one of three), 1974, 1976, 1978; Chair, 1980, 1987, 1989, 1990, 2002; Advisory Board, 1990-99; Nominating Committee, 2003 Sub-Committee on Awards in Literary Criticism, Guggenheim Foundation, Member, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1986-; Sub-Committee on Poetry, 1981-85 Center for Independent Study and Research, Advisory Board, New Haven, 1975-78 Studies in Romanticism Advisory Board, l975-, 2007 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Councilor, 1976-86; Committee on Meetings, 1981- 1983; Emerson-Thoreau Prize Committee, 1984-87; Committee on Publications, 1985- 86; Vice President, 1992- ACLS Grants-in-Aid Selection Committee, 1976, 1977 Barnard Poetry Contest Judge, 1976 Phi Beta Kappa Lecturer, 1976-77 The Nation Discovery Contest for New Poets Judge, 1977 National Humanities Center Selection Jury, 1978, 1985, 2012 The New Yorker Poetry Critic, 1978-98 Rockefeller Commission on the Humanities, 1978-79 Harvard University Mellon Fellowships Jury, 1979 MLA Poetry Division Chair, 1979 Rockefeller Fellowships Selection Jury, 1979 -4- Harvard University Visiting Committee of the Department of English, 1980 Radcliffe College Iota Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, President, 1980-83 Harvard Library Bulletin Advisory Board, 1981- New York Institute for Visual History Consultant, 1981-87 (for a 13-part television series on American poets, screened in 1988) Harvard University Press Board of Syndics, 1982-86 National Mellon Graduate Fellowships Board of Selection, 1983 Vanity Fair Poetry Critic, 1983 Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Education Department, Consultant on Public Programs, 1984, 1987, 1990 ACLS Board, 1985-89 Poetvision Consultant (project for poetry in schools, sponsored by Rohm and Haas), Philadelphia, 1985-86 External Honors Examiner, Swarthmore College, Bates College NEH Board of Educational Consultants (with site visits to Hunter, Tougaloo, University of Alabama-Birmingham, University of Houston, University of California-Irvine) New Letters Literary Awards Judge, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1987 Reader for University Presses (Chicago, Wesleyan, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, Harvard, Illinois, Columbia, and the Univesity of Missouri), 1987 Union College Department of English Visiting Committee, 1987 Yale University Library Bollingen Prize Jury, 1987 Dartmouth College School of Criticism and Theory Senior Fellow, 1988 NEH Institute Consultant, Brookline High School, 1988, 1990, 1996-97 NEH “Poets in Person” Interviewer (audio series), 1989 NEH Summer Institute for High School
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